Plastic surgeons are medical professionals, specializing in the correction or restoration of form and function of damaged or malformed areas of the body. Plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.
Reconstructive plastic surgery is performed to correct problems caused by burns, traumatic injuries, congenital abnormalities, developmental abnormalities, infection and disease, and cancer or tumours. While the general purpose of reconstructive plastic surgery is to improve function, it may also be performed to restore or approximate a normal appearance.
In plastic surgery, skin grafting is a very common procedure. Skin grafts can be taken from either the recipient or donors. When local tissue is not available, plastic surgeons use microsurgery to transfer tissue to cover a defect by removing it from one part of the body, moving to another site on the body, and reconnecting it to a blood supply by suturing arteries and veins....Read more